Western cyclone., 1887-10-28
KANSAS.
Condensed Reports OF the Latest News
from All Parts of the State.

-Atchison now has two pressed
brick companies.
Western Kansas reports an i'm
mense peanut crop.
A new $4,000 hotel has been
opened at Jetmore.
An electric light plant is to be
placed in Lyons for street-l lighting.
1.-Two hundred feet of the finest
rock salt in the world. and the end is not
vet" is headline in The Hutchinson
Ne,cS.
Fort Scott is doing big business
IN receiving delegations OF prominent
citizens from various Kansas towns
who come 10 inspect the sugar works.
AT Leavenworth, Messrs Il. A.
Smith and Edward Dingley, the new
managers of the Times, have taken
possession. The banquet which was
to have been rendered Congressman
Dingley, who accompanied them, was
indefinitely postponed.
Orders have been issued To reduce
the working time Of the 1900 en-
ployes of the AtchinSon, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad shops at Topeka.
from ten TO nine hours, and 10 give
them nine hours pay i'll correspond
ence herewith This will result in
saving to the company of over $1,000
week.
During the session OF the Kansas
Equal Suffrage Association, at New
town, Miss Susan B. Anthony delivered
an address in reply TO senator Ingalls,
F0r},m article against female suffrage.
Resolutions We're passed condemnmg
the Senator's attitude on the question
and requesting Gov. Martin to appoint
women on the state Board OF Charities.
AT convention of Republic ms
held at Nyandotte, J. IL Laslcy was
| unanimously nominated for Surveyor,
q. III. Miller, the present incumbent,
was nominated for Judge of the dis
trict, and Geo. 4. Dudley, co!oFed
| Republican, received the nomination
for Register of Deeds. He polled 40
votes out OF III. Mr. w. +. Connolly
was nominated for County Clerk; John
| l.. BOddington was nominated for
County Treasurer.
Last winter William Vancleave, of
| Winfield, was called to his door Just
! after dark. and rs ne opened It was
shot, and died after few days with
! out giving any information as TO who
/ did the shooting. Rufus Nooils, col
| ored, under arrest at Oswego, for
| burglary, has confessed the murder, as
an accomplice has been arrested. He
implicated one of the best known men
| in Winfield, who was smitten with
Mrs. Vancle I'VE.
On the 18th inst. a wreck took
! place on the santa Fe railroad about
| two miles west of Strong City, viii, h
! delayed for some time all trains bound
west. The wreck was caused by No.
| 8 passenger running into the rear end
/ of construction train which was un-
able to get off the main track on ac-
count of switch sticking. Fireman
Andrew Hartwck was badly hurt in
jumping from his engine, and Mail
Agent G.. Il. Butcher was injured in
the knee.
During the late session OF the
Kansas Equal Suffrage Association
Judge Adams, of the state Historical
society, read paper giving an ab-
stract of his forthcoming book. con
tanning detailed statement of the
women's vote at the spring elections,
with collected comments of the press.
The total vote of the women was 25..
300. In the evening stirring addresses
were made by the Rev. Annie shaw, II.
b. Blackwell, Miss Anothony, Con.
gressman ;. X. Peters, and others.
John Reynolds, editor and pro-
orietor of the Atchison 7imey, was on
rial in the United States District
ourt in LeavenwOrth last week,
harged with using the mails for fraudu
ent purposes. The jury returned u
,erdict of guilty. upon which Judge
toster sentenced Reynolds TO eighteen
months at hard labor in the peniten.
ary. Reynolds was the President of
he AtchisOn stock Insurance Com
any. He is also an eX-clergyman,
nd while in that capacity was con
ected with a number Of scandals that
rove uln 4EoHl Lnt IAICu. A. e Was
.ormerly Of Des Moines, la.
Sheriff Ferguson, Of Wyandotte,
armed on the l6h inst. that a gang
# counterfeiters were plying their
-rade in a shanty just north OF tie
limits Of Argentine. He detailed fiye
men to surround the building and
capture the entire gang. The po5-e
proceeded 10 the place, took every pre-
caution against the escape OF the
crooks. and quietly closed Ia on the
shanty. They forced an entrance Dut
found only one inmate, man who
gave the name Of Henry Thompson.
\ number of 2jc and J0c piecrs In
different stages Of manufacture. were
found. together with dies and other
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